Re: [xsl] How do I search ancestors in the output tree?

On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 10:46 +0200, Stefan Drees wrote:
> [...] shouldn't we say instead "the output tree wouldn't be
> available to you to query unless you make it the input tree for a
> subsequent transform" ?
In XSLT 2 and later (and exslt/xslt 1.1) you can also access results by
storing the output in variables.
>
> I always conceived a common strength of sql and xsl* is the concept that
> result sets/trees MAY be chained together (endlessly if one prefers to
> do so).
Yes. See XProc for example.
Liam
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